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Tag: 10.05.11
The Essence Of A Copyright Dispute
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. posed the general question in the case this way: “One day I can perform Shostakovich. Congress does something. The next day I can’t. Doesn’t that present a serious First Amendment problem?”
Scottish Opera, Orchestra To Get Revamped New Homes
“Both companies will redevelop their Glasgow headquarters in time for the Commonwealth Games in 2014, with Scottish Opera upgrading its Theatre Royal venue and the RSNO moving into a new building next to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.”
The Disastrous State Of Theatre Employment
“The impoverished repertory system can no longer sustain companies or even in most cases casts of more than five or six per play. Paid employment in the form of small TV parts or commercials, or even the glittering gem of a job in the fringe on expenses or even less can hardly give these highly trained equivalents of racehorses the sort of gallop they need.”
NY Armory To Get Starchitect Makeover
“So why would the prizewinning Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron take on the Park Avenue Armory, a project that is more restoration than renovation, more fixer-upper than fresh take?”
Philadelphia Orchestra Contract, Pushed By Bankruptcy Judge, Could Be Near
“A breakthrough in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case could emerge [soon], as management and labor try to hammer out a deal under the supervision of a U.S. bankruptcy judge.” But the possibility of litigation still looms if the orchestra leaves the musicians’ union pension fund.
Vow Of Silence: Lars Von Trier Says He’ll Never Talk To News Media Again
With his ill-considered jokes at Cannes about being a Nazi and admiring Hitler having led to a police interrogation, the controversial filmmaker has decided that his mouth gets him into so much trouble that he’ll (try to) keep it shut in public from now on.
Novel = Symphony, Says Will Self – Until, Alas, They Diverged
The novelist argues that the flagship forms of high art music and literature developed and hit their twin peaks in tandem throughout the 19th century – and laments that, while art music was transformed by modernism, novelists experimented a bit and then scurried right back into familiar forms. (Some commenters riposte that this is why contemporary novels find a wider audience than contemporary symphonic music.)
In Defense Of Opera Singers Breaking Character
At the Met’s opening night, Anna Netrebko’s big mad-scene aria drew lots of cheers – and the diva briefly flashed a grin. Most of the critics tut-tutted, despite – or likely because – breaking character to bow after a major aria used to be so commonplace. Zachary Woolfe argues that the practice is a good and natural thing for opera.
British Brutalism’s Loathed Landmarks Now On World List Of Endangered Monuments
“Some of the most widely disliked buildings in Britain, so called ‘concrete brutalist’ structures of the 60s and 70s, including a bus station in Preston, a library in Birmingham, and parts of the South Bank centre in London, have been listed among the world’s most endangered treasures.”